Other Worlds, Other Universes: Playing the Reality Game

302 Pages·2020·1.638 MB·English

by  Brad Steiger, John White

OTHER
WORLDS,
OTHER
UNIVERSES
Playing the Reality Game
edited by
BRAD STEIGER
and
JOHN WHITE

www.whitecrowbooks.com
PERMISSIONS
“Where Is Heaven?” by Barry Downing, from The Bible and Flying
Saucers by Barry H. Downing. Copyright © 1968 by Barry H.
Downing. Reprinted by permission of J. B. Lippincott Company.
“The Revelations of Frederic Myers” by Arthur Ford and Jerome
Ellison. Reprinted by permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons from The
Life Beyond Death by Arthur Ford, as told to Jerome Ellison.
Copyright © 1971 by Jerome Ellison.
“Starseed: A Way Out” by Timothy Leary. Reprinted in part from
Terra II … A Way Out by T. Leary, copyright © 1974 by Starseed, A
Partnership. Reprinted by permission.
“Evolution of Man” by Nada-Yolanda, from Evolution of Man by
Nada-Yolanda, copyright © 1971 by Mark-Age MetaCenter, Inc.,
Class A-Registration #244778, registered on June 8, 1971 by Mark-
Age MetaCenter, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
“The Astral World” by Yogi Ramacharaka, from Yogi Philosophy and
Oriental Occultism by Yogi Ramacharaka. Reprinted by permission
of The Yoga Publication Society.
“Multiple Universes” by Ivan Sanderson originally appeared in
Psychic Observer, March 1974, as “An Interview with Ivan
Sanderson” by Bryce Bond, interviewer and photographer. Reprinted
by permission.
The quotation from Ivan Sanderson in the Introduction to Part V is
reprinted, with permission, from “Other Universes” in Pursuit, Vol. 5,
No. 2, April 1972, copyright © 1972 by the Society for the
Investigation of the Unexplained, Columbia, N.J. 07832.
“From Star Maker” by Olaf Stapledon, from Star Maker by Olaf
Stapledon, reprinted by permission of its publishers, Methuen & Co.
Ltd., London, England.
“Knowledge of the Higher Worlds” by Rudolf Steiner, from
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment by Rudolf
Steiner. Reprinted by permission of the Anthroposophic Press.
“Passport to Magonia” by Jacques Vallee, reprinted from Passport to
Magonia by Jacques Vallee, copyright © 1969 by the Henry Regnery
Company. Reprinted by permission.
To our wives, families and
fellow travelers in the
exploration of reality.
Other Worlds, Other Universes
Original Copyright © 1975 by Brad Steiger and John White. All
Rights Reserved Library of Congress catalog Card Number 74-
18835.
This edition: Copyright © 2020 by Brad Steiger and John White. All
rights reserved.
Published in the United States of America and the United Kingdom
by White Crow Books; an imprint of White Crow Productions Ltd.
The right Brad Steiger and John White to be identified as the editors
of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the
Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
No part of this book may be reproduced, copied or used in any form
or manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case
of brief quotations in reviews and critical articles.
For information, contact White Crow Books by e-mail:
[email protected].
Cover Design by [email protected]
Interior design by [email protected]
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-78677-119-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-78677-120-9
Non-Fiction / Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / Unexplained
Phenomena / UFOs & Extraterrestrials / Metaphysics
www.whitecrowbooks.com
Disclaimer: White Crow Productions Ltd. and its directors,
employees, distributors, retailers, wholesalers and assignees
disclaim any liability or responsibility for the author’s statements,
words, ideas, criticisms or observations.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
BRAD STEIGER (February 19, 1936 – May 6, 2018) liked to be
thought of as a “sharer” rather than a teacher or preacher of
metaphysics. He was pleased that the name given to him when he
and his wife were adopted by the Repositor of Wisdom into the Wolf
Clan Oan of the Seneca Tribe, Iroquois Nation, was Hat-yasswas,
“he testified.” From 1957 – 67 Mr. Steiger taught on both the high
school and college level. Post 1967 he was engaged in a full-time
exploration of what others might term “borderland sciences,” “the
paranormal,” or even “the world of the weird,” which Steiger called
“the greater reality which we all share but cannot always explain.”
His work has appeared in numerous publications and periodicals in
this country and abroad, and he is a biographee in many
international reference works. Among Mr. Steiger’s nearly fifty books
are The Psychic Feats of Olof Jonsson; Revelation: The Divine Fire:
Medicine Power: The American Indian’s Revival of His Spiritual
Heritage and Its Relevance for Modern Man and Mysteries of Time
and Space.
In 1974 Mr. Steiger received the Genie Award for Metaphysical
Writer of the Year.
JOHN WHITE is a writer and teacher engaged in the exploration of
consciousness and higher human development. From 1972-74 he
was associated with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell as
director of education for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an
organization founded by Dr. Mitchell to investigate the nature of
consciousness and human potential.
Born in 1939, Mr. White has a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth
College and a master’s degree from Yale University. He is editor of
The Highest State of Consciousness, Frontiers of Consciousness,
What Is Meditation? and Toward a Science of Consciousness. He
also edited Psychic Exploration for Edgar Mitchell.
His writings have appeared in many popular and professional
journals, including Reader’s Digest, Saturday Review, World
Psychic, Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, Journal for the
Study of Consciousness, and Fields Within Fields. He has taught in
high school and college. He is an editor of Psychic and Human
Dimensions magazines, and is on the editorial board of Journal of
Altered States of Consciousness.
His articles have been reprinted in textbooks on linguistics, biology,
and education.
He lives in Cheshire, Connecticut, with his wife and has four
children.
Limitations and constraints in apprehending reality are characteristic
of organisms at every level of organization. The design of the human
body determines our experience of reality; our biological constraints
delimit what we can perceive. The central nervous system receives
messages from certain portions of the ebb and flow of the natural
world, but the far greater portion is infra or ultra to our “tuning.” From
what portions we can tune in to, our reality is constructed.
~ Daniel Goleman
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we
call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it,
parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of
consciousness entirely different…. No account of the universe in its
totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness
quite disregarded. They forbid a premature closing of our accounts
with reality.
~ William James
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can
satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another
world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Exploring the far-out spaces of human consciousness is the fastest
way to social transformation.
~ John C. Lilly